Cianna has been having mild seizures since the weekend. The episodes started with rapid horizontal eye rolling that would last for a minute or two followed by disorientation. By Tuesday, she would go limp for 5 minutes each time, and the seizures were happening serially (several in a row). All this was enough to scare the piss out of us. A trip to the emergency room on Monday didn't coincide with any seizures, but finally yesterday morning Cianna's mom got into see a neurologist and he saw two occurances. Cianna was admitted to the hospital yesterday (1-2, pics I saw via e-mail), so I decided to leave my conference early to take a red-eye out of San Jose through Vegas (3-4) to BWI. It was a comfort for me to get a briefing from the neurologist this morning. His opinion is that this is some form of mild epilepsy, and we'll need to do EEG and MRI under anesthesia today in order to get the data required to decide on a plan for treatment. Mommy is worn out from three failed EEG atempts yesterday afternoon where each time Cianna threw a fit. So all is quiet at the moment. Cianna is whining for ice cream and watching The Iron Giant DVD (5). She calls her IV splint "robot hand" (6).

- mike lee - rockville, md